From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-23T21:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Pathname#walk for traversing path nodes (patch)

Hi --

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, daz wrote:

>
> Tanaka Akira wrote:
>
>> David A. Black writes:
>>
>>> Maybe "scan".
>>
>
> I've followed the recent protests that a Pathname is not
> a String and, here, the name of a String method is
> suggested.  An understanding of the operation of either
> #scan method would provide no clue to the operation of
> the other.
> This, IMHO, is what leads to dilution of meaning,
> then dilution of understanding.  I object strongly.

I don't think any given class can monopolize a method name, unless
there's a really close connection.  (And in that case it would be
monopolization by default, since no other objects would want the
name.)


David

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